INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 
KINANTHROPOMETRY

ISAK

REPORT TO ICSSPE - 1997-98


1. Secretary General and Editor. Because of the resignation 
of our previous Secretary General and Editor of the 
newsletter, the Executive Council decided to split the 
positions of Secretary General and Editor. In July 1997 we 
appointed Dr. Kevin Norton as Secretary General and Dr. Tim 
Olds as the new Editor for the Kinanthreport. Both are at 
the University of South Australia in Adelaide. These 
appointments were confirmed for four years at the ISAK 
Biennial Meeting, Adelaide, 14 October, 1998.

2. ISAK-Anthropometry Accreditation Scheme. In November, 
1996, the Executive Council approved the working model of 
the ISAK-Anthropometry Accreditation Scheme, and in 
December, 1997, they approved additional information on the 
Certification process. Michael Marfell-Jones (NZL) was 
appointed by the president as Chair of the Accreditation 
committee. He reports that 10 certification courses have 
been conducted during the past two years in Australia, 
Chile, Estonia, Mexico, and New Zealand. Workshops in 
Kinanthropometry have also been presented in various 
countries. Nine persons have been approved as Criterion 
Anthropometrists. A curriculum guide for courses, 
"Accreditation in Anthropometry" by Gore et al., has been 
published by the Australian Sports Commission (1998). An 
international certification course for Levels 1, 2 and 3, 
was recently held in Adelaide, 7-12 October, 1998. Nine 
countries were represented among the 25 candidates in this 
most successful course.

3. Membership. Our numbers are increasing as is the 
international distribution of members. Members are drawn 
from 35 countries, with the greatest increases in 
Australasia and Latin America. We do lose a few members 
each year, but the trend is good with the number of young 
colleagues an encouraging sign.

4. Communications. We are developing our ISAK Web page on 
the Internet, but information is missing for some sections. 
[http://www.ffk/hr/isak]

5. Awards. Two people were honored by receiving the ISAK 
Award of Merit. In May 1997, the recipient was Dr. Eduardo 
De Rose, Brazil, and in May 1998, the recipient was Dr. 
Otto Eiben, Hungary.

6. Biennial Meetings. ISAK is grateful to Sports Medicine 
Australia and the University of South Australia, especially 
Kevin Norton and Tim Olds, for agreeing to host 
Kinanthropometry VI and our Biennial Meeting, in Adelaide, 
13-16 October, 1998. Our next Biennial Meeting, 
Kinanthropometry VII will be at Brisbane 2000, in 
conjunction with the ICSSPE Pre Olympic Congress.

7. 1978-1998. It is 20 years since the beginnings of ISAK. 
The initial organization, called the International Working 
Group in Kinanthropometry (IWGK), was ratified at a FIMS 
meeting in Brasilia, 1978, by the then Research Committee 
of ICSSPE. This followed the agreement to found IWGK by the 
initial organizers after Kinanthropometry II in Leuven, and 
the 1st International Kinanthropometry Course in Brussels 
in the same year. ISAK was founded and a constitution 
adopted at a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 20, 1986 
during Kinanthropometry III. We have made good progress 
since then. Part of the preamble to the constitution reads, 
"ISAK's purpose is to create and maintain an international 
network of colleagues who represent the world community 
transcending geography, politics and the bounds of separate 
disciplines." We hope to continue support of this purpose 
during the coming years.

Respectfully submitted,


J.E. Lindsay Carter
President ISAK.
10 November 1998.

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